Evelyn and Younger Brother begin an affair as she prepares her return to the stage, while he assumes they will eventually marry. He leaves New York with their daughter and sells the flip book he created. Passing through the Lower East Side, Evelyn encounters street artist Tateh ( Mandy Patinkin), who throws out his unfaithful wife ( Fran Drescher). Thaw's lawyer Delmas ( Pat O'Brien) bribes Evelyn with a million-dollar divorce settlement to keep silent about Thaw's mental instability and to testify that White abused her. Younger Brother witnesses White's murder and becomes obsessed with Evelyn. Coalhouse arrives in search of Sarah, driving a new Ford Model T, and realizing he is the baby's father, announces his intention to marry Sarah. An African American baby is abandoned in their garden, and upon learning the police intend to charge the child's mother, Sarah ( Debbie Allen), with child abandonment and attempted murder, Mother ( Mary Steenburgen) takes Sarah and her child into the home despite Father's objections.
Convinced White has corrupted Evelyn, Thaw publicly shoots him dead.Īn upper-class family resides in New Rochelle, New York, where Father ( James Olson) owns a factory where his wife's Younger Brother ( Brad Dourif) makes fireworks.
Millionaire industrialist Harry Kendall Thaw ( Robert Joy) makes a scene when White unveils a nude statue atop Madison Square Garden, modeled after former chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit ( Elizabeth McGovern), Thaw's wife. A newsreel montage depicts turn-of-the-20th-century celebrities including Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, architect Stanford White ( Norman Mailer), and life in New York City, accompanied by ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr.
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